Haruomi Hosono

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definitely gonna start saying bidenbux

G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 March 2021 22:32 (three years ago) link

goddamn freemium games

Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 March 2021 23:45 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

looks like the 2019 US show will be coming to vinyl as well

https://www.hmv.co.jp/en/news/article/2104071044/

frogbs, Thursday, 8 April 2021 13:41 (three years ago) link

fun album!

maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 8 April 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link

The Monad reissues were pulled from the Phonica page. Apparently they're Japan RSD exclusives and can't be sold until 7/17. Good news though is LitA apparently will try to sell a few copies:

https://lightintheattic.net/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=hosono

I'm sure they'll be expensive, but maybe not as bad as previously thought

frogbs, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

just found out today that Hosono apparently composed some music for a Japanese kids TV show in 2006. apparently Miharu Koshi and Akiko Yano are on the soundtrack too. can't find it but I did come across two tracks on YouTube, they're surprisingly great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiAX37XQPwI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB3QK_2qn_M

(I think the second one is AY with Hosono arranging)

frogbs, Friday, 30 April 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link

The first is Mei Kurokawa and is in the Japanese Pops Of Haruomi Hosono box set.

visiting, Saturday, 1 May 2021 01:58 (two years ago) link

nice!! thanks for finding that!! I have become obsessed with it today.

frogbs, Saturday, 1 May 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

paging: Karl Malone

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ymostream/permalink/4466977030014084/

Haruomi Hosono interview from the endless talking, the episode of the s
′′ I started smoking the so-called glass (the meaning of marijuana, cannabis) during the session. Happy also I didn't do much at any time, but I just happen to like that kind of thing at that time ′′
There is a picture of a hijab party on the jacket of Masato Minami's album that hosono-San participated in the time and session. I was originally interested in spiritual, and I was experiencing a musician's unique drug. Happy birthday, but even during the ting pan array activity, I don't say I don't do drugs at all, so the concept of the utopia of the yellow magic band name ′′ off ′′ that I participated in by professor and xìng hóng is actually the other side It's a real original world, not a scavenger, made by hosono-San, who knew it. The ending hosono-San's hurrah ′′ this next is more better!" is staggering." I'm going to connect to hosono-San and ymo who try anything because I like pleasure."

frogbs, Sunday, 23 May 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link

wait...WHAT?!?!

Karl Malone, Sunday, 23 May 2021 03:23 (two years ago) link

what's crazy is that i refreshed about 12 seconds after you posted it, so it really was like a pager :D

Karl Malone, Sunday, 23 May 2021 03:23 (two years ago) link

of course, this is my job

Karl Malone, Sunday, 23 May 2021 03:23 (two years ago) link

I guess that means I have to get blazed and listen to all his records again. ha ha ha, as if I haven't been doing that anyway

frogbs, Sunday, 23 May 2021 03:25 (two years ago) link

was at The Exclusive Company in Milwaukee and they had 4 of his records - his 3 latest and The Aegean Sea. not gonna pay that much for covers, but still, kind of surreal to see them

frogbs, Sunday, 23 May 2021 03:35 (two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

We Want Sounds reissuing three Makoto Kubota albums on vinyl. Listening to Dixie Fever rn on their bandcamp and it's lush.

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 18 June 2021 10:57 (two years ago) link

Hosono on NTS right now picking fave records.

Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 20 June 2021 09:43 (two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

first of all, it's his 74th birthday today. I for one have been listening to Hosono records all day, how about you??

secondly, I just discovered this has a video and that indeed Hosono did have a ponytail in the mid-90s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU6mWac-h4w

frogbs, Saturday, 10 July 2021 04:57 (two years ago) link

Happy Birthday, HH!

I posted this elsewhere and it may not be accessible from certain places, so apologies in advance, but it's a really interesting BBC Radio documentary about Kankyō Ongaku - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000xdwh

Maresn3st, Saturday, 10 July 2021 11:50 (two years ago) link

Oh nice! I’m gonna give that a shot via VPN

Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Saturday, 10 July 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link

allow me to brag for a moment and show this off. not to get all Steve Hoffman-y but this pressing is totally amazing, lotta stuff I never noticed on my MP3 copy

https://i.imgur.com/XkEOqsT.jpg

is this the one album of his that doesn't really stick to a particular sound? every track seems to invoke a different locale. honestly I think this might be his very best record. it's so melodically rich and weird. it combines his tropical, ambient, and technopop periods into one. it's one of those rare albums that really is an intersection of everything that makes an artist great at once. like for all the music he made between 82-85 this is like 4 years of ideas in one record. and it has "Pleocene".

frogbs, Saturday, 24 July 2021 04:00 (two years ago) link

Jealous! OSS is one of his best and yeah, it has 'Pleocene', easily my favourite HH song, even if he sounds a little like Kermit the frog :)

Maresn3st, Saturday, 24 July 2021 08:25 (two years ago) link

Every time he covers a song it comes off like he’s mocking it, in part because of that voice. Like idk if “Caravan” is supposed to be funny but it makes me laugh

frogbs, Saturday, 24 July 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link

I associate Hosono's voice with Levon Helm - I guess they and Kermit The Frog are all contemporaries, lotta mutual influencing happening.

Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 24 July 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link

caravan is a cover of like a 40s tin pan alley thing innit? i like it

clouds, Sunday, 25 July 2021 01:55 (two years ago) link

it's a duke ellington song from the mid 1930s and must be one of thee most covered pieces of music of all time. it became an exotica classic which is possibly what drew hosono to it.

stirmonster, Sunday, 25 July 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link

His Funiculì, Funiculà is really beautiful tho'

Maresn3st, Sunday, 25 July 2021 12:06 (two years ago) link

I really like the drum programming on the F.O.E. stuff

brimstead, Sunday, 25 July 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

so I've been deep into the Light in the Attic reissues of Omni Sight Seeing and Medicine Compilation lately. I've kind of dismissed these in the past as "later period Hosono" which regardless had some very good parts, now I think they are both in my Top 5. hell, OSS might be #1, I think it's the only album he has that captures nearly everything he's good at

frogbs, Saturday, 4 September 2021 04:48 (two years ago) link

omni sight seeing has "pleiocene" which is pretty much the best song ever

clouds, Friday, 10 September 2021 01:48 (two years ago) link

four weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxgPXw0nbyE

Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 9 October 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link

Will
11 months ago
I REMEMBER MAKING OUT WITH MAUDE IN MY BACK SEAT 38 DODGE AFTER THE HIGH SCHOOL HOP BACK IN 1962 AND MEDIUM COMPOSITION 1 WAS PLAYING ON THE RADIO SO GOOD IT NOT LIKE MODERN MUSIC WHICH IS ALL DISCO AND HI NRG>+/- WHY NO ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME FOR HARUOMI HOSONO!!?!!

frogbs, Sunday, 10 October 2021 02:56 (two years ago) link

This thread is hall-of-fame second post wrongness.

Maresn3st, Sunday, 10 October 2021 11:18 (two years ago) link

I’m finally giving Hosono House a spin and even tho I was prepared for it to sound like some early 70s rock trip, this is wild. The second song sounds like The Band, another sounds like his spin on Van Dyke Parks’ wonderful cover of Allen Toussiant’s Occapella, and yet another sounds like a Clarence White vocal from one of the final Byrds records. Now, there’s a Nilsson homage. Crazy.

Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 04:39 (two years ago) link

folks it has finally arrived, I'm actually excited to actually spin this for the first time

https://i.imgur.com/s1vGDKQ.png

frogbs, Thursday, 14 October 2021 02:53 (two years ago) link

that bit in "La Masto de Tenkirin" where the grandfather clock starts wildly tolling feels so massive rn

frogbs, Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link

Is the bottom third the obi or part of the artwork?

Maresn3st, Thursday, 14 October 2021 12:05 (two years ago) link

yeah its an obi. its so stuck on there I thought it was part of the artwork too.

it also came with a card sheet with stills from the movie that I think you're supposed to cut up. and a credit sheet. one thing I see now is that most of the piano pieces were in fact written by Miharu Koshi. I thought it might have been him because of his stuff on Coincidental Music, but now I'm looking at that one and she played the piano bits on there as well! I think her contributions to this soundtrack are what put it over the top for me.

frogbs, Thursday, 14 October 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link

whoa good news

https://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/-/News/A019206/57.html

3 new Hosono records (new pressings, not new material)

one is a repress/new mix of Swing Slow
one is a 12" with "talking" with the Vampire Weekend song that sampled it on the flip
one is a comp of his soundtrack work from the last couple of years

dunno if i'll cop all 3 but I absolutely need to get the Swing Slow repress, I've been waiting for that for yeeears

frogbs, Friday, 15 October 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link

three new tracks on the Swing Slow reissue btw

frogbs, Friday, 15 October 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link

SO HAPPY! Been praying for a Swing Slow reissue for so long. YES!

stirmonster, Friday, 15 October 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link

do you know when? i can't seem to see. maybe they can be bought from there now?

stirmonster, Friday, 15 October 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link

Cdjapan has them for preorder. I’m gonna see if Light in the Attic will carry them bc I’d assume it’s right in their wheelhouse

frogbs, Friday, 15 October 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link

My favorite YMO stuff is the BGM / Technodelic period and the associated solo albums from 1981-82, so I'm down with "Philharmony" too.

I wanna know from the experts here what are the critical albums from Hosono, Takahashi and Sakamoto. Their catalogs are quite vast.

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 16 October 2021 01:25 (two years ago) link

thanks frogbs. i thinjk i'll try to get them from jeset as japan to uk shipping is way cheaper.

stirmonster, Saturday, 16 October 2021 02:46 (two years ago) link

short answer, this is easily the most critical from any of them:

https://www.discogs.com/release/2545732-Yukihiro-Takahashi-Yukihiro-Takahashis-Sexual-Voice-Message

long answer I actually have a list on RYM about this

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/JAMOOL/yellow-magic-orchestra-solo-and-related-albums/

frogbs, Saturday, 16 October 2021 02:51 (two years ago) link

ooh that's a great overview, thanks. haven't heard that akiko yano album among others

ufo, Saturday, 16 October 2021 03:48 (two years ago) link

like i feel like the akiko yano albums people always talk about are tadaima and maybe iroha ni konpeitou?

ufo, Saturday, 16 October 2021 04:08 (two years ago) link

what are the critical albums from Hosono, Takahashi and Sakamoto. Their catalogs are quite vast.

i'll give you a real amateurish, off the cuff, i've only listened to 1/10th of the catalogs kind of answer, "don't blame me!" THSTHS kind of list:

Neuromantic (T)
Cochin Moon (H)
Ongaku Zukan (S)
What Me Worry? (T)
Philharmony (H)
Thousand Knives (S)

typo hell 13: crypto in insidious, though (Karl Malone), Saturday, 16 October 2021 04:55 (two years ago) link

no, those aren't their very best of the best or most representative probably, but all of these rule so much

typo hell 13: crypto in insidious, though (Karl Malone), Saturday, 16 October 2021 04:56 (two years ago) link

re: akiko yano, to my mind everything up to and including welcome back (her "jazz" album ft metheny, haden, et al) are worth a listen (i actually think she was a more consistent solo artist than any of the core ymo members in the 80s) but my personal favs are japanese girl (sleek 70s jazz pop w/ heavy japanese folk inflections, she was only like 20 or something ridiculous when she made this), ai ga nakuchane (recorded in london w/ ymo and members of japan) and brooch (beautiful interpretations of schubert, debussy, stravinsky et al songs as well as some originals, performed alongside classical pianist yuji takahashi, really highlights the exceptional range of her unconventional vocal style)

worth noting that many of the lyrics on her albums throughout the 80s and into the 90s were written by shigesato itoi, best known in the west as creator of the mother/earthbound series

missingNO, Saturday, 16 October 2021 05:04 (two years ago) link


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